Rapid Vienna's nightmare start to the season continued as they were beaten 2-0 by St Polten in the Austrian Bundesliga.

Rapid face Rangers in the Europa League on Thursday night and have just two wins from nine league games this season.

Their campaign was thrown into further chaos in midweek when manager Goran Djuricin was forced to deny complaints from fans that he made a rude gesture to them during their Austrian Cup win over SV Mattersburg.

Rapid stay in ninth in the league after the defeat to second-placed St Polten leaves them with nine points from a possible 27.

They went behind just before half time when Rene Gartler opened the scoring and it went from bad to worse when Romanian winger Andrei Ivan was sent off in 59 minutes.